Perfidy
Poem about betrayal and vengeance in the style of The Tale of Edward Brown…
The Friendly Skies
After achieving success in business, and anticipating similar success in marriage, Mathew Hayward boards his flight from Toronto to Vancouver. In order to meet him and complete their plans, his fiancée has already given notice at her place of employment and requested additional time off.Both anticipating the friendly skies of a shared future.…
Kilroy Is Back! (ONC2025)
ONC2025 entry based on Prompt 110. 20 days of freedom and Prompt 77. In a world where art and entertainment are forbidden, you're born to challenge the system and change the world.…
The Trust
This story was written about nine years ago, and resurrected now because I've hit a wall with another story I was currently writing. It follows a wannabe detective through a maze of characters and bizarre situations involving a family trust. It came from a previous book called The Mistake which had a bevy of characters I grew quite fond of, and on occasion, are referred to in this story.…
Rule Number Two
Rule Number Two follows the dramatic adventure of Hitman Dane Chase and the woman he refused to kill in Rule Number One, as the man who hired him tracks him to the island of St. Lucia and back, for revenge.…
No Good Deed
Yamashita's Gold. During the occupation of the Philippines, Japanese military looted everything - temples, homes, and government offices, amassing a huge fortune in treasure. When it could no longer be shipped back to Japan, Prisoners of war were forced to bury it.Much has been recovered since the war - but not all. Our story concerns a number of competing groups vying over information of a site, uncovered through a letter delivered by a dying man, as a last act of a promise made.…
The Comic
Parker Nevens, stand up comic in a seedy roadhouse, and fed up with the way his career is going, barges in on his boss to say he's quitting and discovers him being strangled. While fleeing, he gets help from the club's lead pole dancer, and gains some sympathy from a detective who has a thing for the same dancer.…
Rule Number One - UIC2023
*** FIRST PLACE WINNER UIC2023 ***12 chapter contest based on specific weekly prompts. An assassin realizes something isn't right about the new target they've been given. They switch sides to save the person they were meant to kill.…
The Bride
THIRD PLACE IN HISTORICAL FICTION - 2020 SOAP AWARDSWith nothing to remain for or even forget, Allison Bleeker listened eagerly to the descriptions offered by the agent who encouraged her signature on the marriage contract that would see her travelling west, dreaming of a new start in life with the man who sent for her.The nightmare awaiting her would give her something she would never forget.…
The Dossier
Three agencies. An international criminal organization. A mother and daughter. Moles. Assassins.All of the above in a deadly competition for The Dossier.…
A Duplicitous Death
Reginald Harrison is found dead in his apartment. His guilt and secrets died with him. No witnesses. No fingerprints. No murder weapon, and a time frame that defies plausibility. Detective Art Springer and his partners, Detectives Gary Crawford and Grace Champion, have a department deadline to meet, or the mayor will be chopping budgets, personnel, or both.…
No Quit
SELECTED FOR FEATURED LIST BY WATTPAD PICKS - JUNE/20182nd PLACE IN THE 2018 CORONA MYSTERY AWARDSTed Wagner has taken a sabbatical from life to travel and write. He chose the desolation of the southwest to escape from the city's pace. On a whim he gets off the bus he was riding in the middle of nowhere at a roadside diner and decides to begin his search for a story there. He's not in the diner more than fifteen minutes when the place is robbed and the waitress murdered right before his eyes.…
Once Upon a Life - Short Listed on ONC2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONC2023 CHALLENGE!One dark and stormy night a family went missing, they left taking absolutely nothing with them. When their disappearance was reported, nobody, including the police could figure out what happened. The mystery has gone unsolved for almost 10 years, then a call comes in from an unknown source that changes everything. The job now is to figure out who the caller is, if the family is still alive, and how you will expose what happened.…
The Humpty Dumpty Circumstance
Private Detective, Rick Hart reluctantly accepts what he believes to be a forty year old case of a missing person from an intriguing, determined woman who prefers to keep her reasons secret. His investigation quickly turns out to be something far different . . . and much uglier.…
The Viking Seal
A map fragment is found among the belongings of an archaeologist that died working on the site of a dig in Egypt. before any action can be taken, the rest of the belongings are stolen before any more could be retrieved and protected.The map, a possible confirmation of the Viking visits to North America, draws the attention of the Congress of International Antiquities, and their investigator, Gretta Lawrence.From Canada's northern country all the way to the east coasts of Newfoundland, and Labrador, the Congress team races to beat a criminal opposition to the prize believed to be buried there.…
The Janus Discord (ONC2024)
Based on ONC Prompt 53 - The co-worker who irritates you the most just asked you for a big favour. They're not who or what they appear to be. And they know you're not either.…
Bad Business Practice -Long Listed ONC2021
PROMPT #59 - MYSTERY/THRILLER ENTRY IN THE 2022 STORMY NIGHTS READING CHALLENGEHarold Pope, contract killer by accident, takes advantage of that fact and crafts a successful, financially beneficial career until, through another accident, becomes his own contract!…
A Town Called Sunrise
When miners and prospectors visit the town during a yearly celebration in order to meet the government assayer, a notorious land grabber starts preparing to obtain a claim from an elderly prospector who has finally struck it rich. The sheriff and his deputy have other ideas. Bits of fun, humour, and romance sprinkle the story throughout, but in the end the plan turns ugly and dangerous.…
Puttin' on the Ritz
BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!Coaxed out of retirement for a last time, one time performance, Ratty Kat, live on stage at the Oomph Theatre, with his adaptation of an old favourite. Ratty's career began back in the late 20th century with the production of cartoon books for tots. The last of that series was Ratty Kat and the Robber Rabbit. After that, he moved into more slightly mature projects, appearing in parodies of both James Bond and Indiana Jones. Finally, after his legendary successes in books, Ratty returned to his original roots on the Broadway stage, appearing in several performances of classic plays, at last retiring to his cat box to relax and reminisce. Our intrepid user managed to track him down and convince him that the world would love to see Ratty Kat on stage once more. So now, I present to you, live on stage - RATTY KAT - PUTTIN' ON THE RITZVideo property of German TV show "ZDF Silvester-Tanzparty" at the New Years Eve TV Show in 1983.…